Media Room Live! With Vijay Iyer
Yesterday I spoke with pianist and composer Vijay Iyer. Among other things, we talked about Fifteen, his trio album with Henry Threadgill and Dafnis Prieto.
You can read Media Room’s review of Fifteen here. You can purchase the recording here.
Vijay spoke at length about Henry Threadgill and mentioned his acclaimed autobiography Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music (2023). The book was featured in the “Briefly Noted” section of The New Yorker June 19, 2023:
“I go back in my memory and I don’t see: I hear,” Threadgill, a Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician and composer, writes in…
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